May 2010
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March 2010
1 post
Redoing Shakespeare next month.
Our three-year-old show A Midsummer Night’s Dream is going to be restaged in April. I need to have my costumes adjusted.
February 2010
3 posts
I've forgotten how to blog.
Working nonstop. We’re doing a show on Sunday, and I’m working with Adrian as Stage Manager.
Saw Defending the Caveman today. It was hilarious. Joel Trinidad rocked it.
“[West Side Story] was a hit with theatre people but not with audiences. Four...”
– Sondheim in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co. (via marainthepark) (via fuckyeahsondheim)
True. So, none of us should panic when we hear a Sondheim score being played. It CAN be done.
January 2010
1 post
“There’s a good argument to be made for the fact that the excitement of theatre...”
– Stephen Sondheim (via fuckyeahsondheim)
December 2009
27 posts
Suck it up.
That’s basically what “The Show Must Go On” means. It’s one of the most useful and important things anyone will learn from this job, and I guess, in a way, while it can become one of the most difficult things to do, it’s also one of the things that will keep you sane and afloat.
This year alone, I had to suck it up at least a hundred different times. I got run over...
Love and joy come to you, and to you your wassail...
A little girl named Suzie from Holland came up to us shortly before last night’s show and told us she recognized us from Treasure Island. She, along with a bunch of other kids from her neighborhood, told us that she enjoyed the show, and it was pretty amazing that they could remember all of the characters we played. It was awesome. It made it easier for me to sing songs for last...
Tired. ಠ_ಠ
Been rehearsing nonstop for Christmas shows we’re doing on Saturday and on Friday next week. That’s three different shows.
Kirk Franklin - Hold Me Now
“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
– Nicholas Sparks (via kari-shma) (via ohsofeisty) (via iamryanmiller)
I don’t have any dream roles, but I have dream shows, and The Light in the Piazza is one of them. It has a beautiful score written by Adam Guettel. If you come across a copy of the performance at the Beaumont at the Lincoln Center Theater (I think CBS produced it), watch it.
(Trivia: Adam Guettel is the son of Mary Rodgers, and is the grandson of Richard Rodgers of Rodgers &...
I’m through accepting limits ‘cause someone says they’re so. Some things I cannot change, but ‘til I try, I’ll never know.
Part III
Ketsana/Ondoy, September 30th. In the wake of having one of our shows cancelled because of typhoon Ketsana/Ondoy, some of us volunteered for a couple days at La Salle Zobel to help pack stuff they were gonna send out to the victims. Look at these gems of photos I found!
Who knew puzzles needed to be sharpened?
And a box of women’s toes??? I gotta get me some of that!
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Part II
As soon as we finished watching Pirate-related movies and reading through the script for weeks, we started free-blocking the show in a rehearsal hall.
Free blocking means that the actors determine how and when they’re going to move (block) themselves throughout the entire show. Unless the director (Michael, in this case) specifically states where the characters should start or end up in a...
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A look back on Treasure Island, Part I
This was taken in the Theater Down South office shortly after midnight on September 18th (technically September 19th). The press preview was set to take place in less than 18 hours, and we all were beginning to feel the end of Production Week Hell Week and the beginning of the 8-week run.
The calendar on the upper right-hand corner was for September. The red marks indicate finished rehearsal...
Not so busy
December 16th - Rapunzel (booked) December 20th - Christmas Show December 25th - Christmas Show (in 3 different venues!)
Pick up and actual rehearsals should take place one of these days. I can’t think about much at the moment. I’m just so tired, emotionally and physically. Everything’s fine, so don’t worry.
Good night.
November 2009
15 posts
I said goodbye to Black Dog last night.
I’m probably never gonna see him again.
The worst part about being a pirate is having to...
It’s such a bitch to take off.
Thank God I’m not a pirate in all shows. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a lot of fun being a pirate.
7am call tomorrow for a 10am show
Looks like a lot of us won’t be getting a lot of sleep tonight.
I wanna wake up one of these days and not look...
Semi-busy.
I have a handful of performances to do before the year is out. I don’t know what the entire lineup is like, but here’s what I have so far:
November 19th - Rapunzel (Booked) November 22nd - Treasure Island November 26th - Treasure Island (Booked) November 28th - Treasure Island (Booked) November 29th - Treasure Island (Closing Performance) December 12th - Christmas show December...
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I've got a new goal!
And I need to bring myself to reach it by the end of the year.
I need to redo one of the bedrooms in the house, so I can make it my own. I’ve been sleeping in the same room with my sisters since they came home from Dubai (there are two bedrooms, and the other room became the place where we dumped stuff), and it’s been getting difficult lately. My 1-year-old nephew wakes up too...
I'm turning 23 in 5 days...
…and I’m glad to report I don’t feel as big a failure as I did last year. And I want to feel even greater about myself in the years to come!
October 2009
10 posts
P.S.
Oh, and if you’re wondering why that other post seems so forlorn, it’s because I can no longer afford to eat. And I guess it pisses/depresses the hell out of me. The upside, though, is I still have a roof over my head, even if I sleep on the floor.
I'm going to be honest here.
When people in the States complain about how hard their lives are, or when people I know who move there complain about how difficult it is for them, my first thought always goes like this: at least they don’t live in the Philippines.
It’s seriously difficult and exasperating and exhausting to live out of the box in a country that’s so boxed up it’s practically airtight....